Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1926 - English poetry |
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... never had resolution to tell his passion . This consideration cannot but abate , in some measure , the reader's ... never within the possibility of committing , differs only by the infrequency of his folly from him who praises beauty ...
... never had resolution to tell his passion . This consideration cannot but abate , in some measure , the reader's ... never within the possibility of committing , differs only by the infrequency of his folly from him who praises beauty ...
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... never moved ; we are sometimes surprised , but never delighted , and find much to admire , but little to approve . Still , however , it is the work of Cowley , of d a mind capacious by nature , and replenished by study . In the general ...
... never moved ; we are sometimes surprised , but never delighted , and find much to admire , but little to approve . Still , however , it is the work of Cowley , of d a mind capacious by nature , and replenished by study . In the general ...
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... never feeble , and he did not wish to be energetick ; he is never rapid , and he never stagnates . His sentences have neither studied ampli- tude , nor affected brevity : his periods , though not diligently rounded , are voluble and ...
... never feeble , and he did not wish to be energetick ; he is never rapid , and he never stagnates . His sentences have neither studied ampli- tude , nor affected brevity : his periods , though not diligently rounded , are voluble and ...
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